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watch:build not working

See original GitHub issue

It seems:

nodemon -q -w assets/ --ext '.' --exec 'npm run build'

is causing something weird with npm and I get the default ‘wrong command’ help in the console:

Usage: npm <command>

where <command> is one of:
   ...
npm@1.4.28 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm

on other computers it doesn’t re-build at all. I tried already ‘watch’ from npm, but there the rebuild breaks somewhere and I have to kill processes manually.

Any ideas?

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

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keithamuscommented, Feb 2, 2015

It says the command run was npm watch build. That doesn’t look right - it should be npm run watch:build. What does your modified package.json look like?

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PatrickHeneisecommented, Feb 2, 2015

{
  "name": "npm-site-generator",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "static site generator with NPM",
  "main": "index.js",
  "author": "Keith Cirkel <npm@keithcirkel.co.uk> (http://keithcirkel.co.uk/)",
  "contributors": [
    {
      "name": "Patrick Heneise",
      "email": "patrick@blended.io",
      "url": "http://blended.io"
    }
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "devDependencies": {
    "async": "^0.9.0",
    "browserify": "^6.3.2",
    "hashmark": "^2.0.0",
    "http-server": "^0.7.3",
    "jshint": "^2.5.10",
    "karma": "^0.12.28",
    "karma-browserify": "^1.0.0",
    "karma-cli": "^0.0.4",
    "karma-mocha": "^0.1.10",
    "karma-phantomjs-launcher": "^0.1.4",
    "live-reload": "^0.2.0",
    "minifyify": "^4.4.0",
    "mocha": "^2.0.1",
    "nodemon": "^1.2.1",
    "opener": "^1.4.0",
    "parallelshell": "^1.0.0",
    "rimraf": "^2.2.8",
    "s3-cli": "^0.11.1",
    "hogan": "^1.0.2"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "clean": "rimraf dist/*",
    "prebuild": "npm run clean",
    "build": "npm run build:scripts && npm run build:styles && npm run build:markup && npm run copy:assets && npm run copy:fonts && npm run copy:images ",
    "build:scripts": "cp -R src/assets/js dist/",
    "build:styles": "sass src/assets/scss/styles.scss | hashmark -n stylescss -s -l 8 -m assets.json 'dist/{name}-{hash}.css'",
    "build:markup": "node hogan-render.js",
    "copy:assets": "cp -R src/assets/js/lib dist/",
    "copy:fonts": "cp -R src/assets/fonts dist/",
    "copy:images": "cp -R src/assets/imgs dist/",
    "test": "karma start --singleRun",
    "watch": "parallelshell 'npm run watch:test' 'npm run watch:build'",
    "watch:test": "karma start",
    "watch:build": "nodemon -q -w assets/ --ext '.' --exec 'npm show npm'",
    "open:prod": "opener http://example.com",
    "open:stage": "opener http://staging.example.internal",
    "open:dev": "opener http://localhost:9090",
    "deploy:prod": "s3-cli sync ./dist/ s3://example-com/prod-site/",
    "deploy:stage": "s3-cli sync ./dist/ s3://example-com/stage-site/",
    "serve": "http-server -p 9090 dist/",
    "live-reload": "live-reload --port 9091 dist/",
    "dev": "npm run open:dev -s & parallelshell 'npm run live-reload' 'npm run serve' 'npm run watch'"
  }
}